Toolbox for Thriving With Humans
An Expanding Collection of My Top Energizers, Exercises & Sources for Meaningful Collaboration & Personal Growth
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Raisin Exploration
This is a simple attention exercise that slows experience down to reveal how quickly the mind rushes, labels, and disengages. By working with an ordinary object, participants practice presence, curiosity, and sensory awareness.
Loving Kindness
Loving-Kindness isn’t about being nice or soft. This practice trains compassion as a stabilizing force — reducing internal friction so clearer thinking and better collaboration can emerge.
Friend vs. Self
A short reflection exercise that reveals the gap between how we treat others in difficulty and how we treat ourselves. It helps participants develop a more effective inner coach without lowering standards.
Healthy Skepticism vs. Cynicism
Cynicism often disguises itself as realism, but it quietly erodes trust, creativity, and collaboration. This episode shows how growth-oriented mindsets and empathy are trainable skills that shape healthier teams and more resilient leaders.
Your Living Funeral
Your Living Funeral is a reflective exercise that invites leaders to step back and consider the legacy they want to leave behind. By imagining how they would like to be remembered, it helps clarify what truly matters—and how to live and lead accordingly.
Values Exploration
Values Exploration is a reflective exercise that helps leaders clarify and prioritize what truly matters to them. It supports calmer decision-making, reduces defensiveness under pressure, and anchors leadership behavior in personal integrity.
Visualization as a Leadership Tool
Visualization helps leaders rehearse how they want to show up before high-stakes moments unfold. It strengthens presence, emotional regulation, and intentional action when pressure would otherwise take over.
Happiness & Self-Management
High achievement without inner grounding often leads to quiet emptiness. This episode reframes happiness as a discipline of character, meaning, and emotional self-management — not a byproduct of success.
Journaling as a Leadership Tool
A simple but powerful way to externalize mental noise, reduce reactivity, and regain clarity before decisions or conversations. Journaling turns unexamined thoughts into conscious choice.
Why Our Attention Spans Are Shrinking
Why does focus feel so hard today? This episode breaks down the science of attention, distraction, and practical ways to protect cognitive energy in a hyperconnected world.
Neuroscience Of Spirituality
A science-based exploration of spirituality as a measurable human capacity — not a belief system. Lisa Miller explains how meaning, awe, and connection strengthen resilience, mental health, and how we navigate suffering.